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admit to the existence of nuance in HKDF (#8987)
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* admit to the existence of nuance in HKDF

* Update docs/hazmat/primitives/key-derivation-functions.rst

Co-authored-by: Alex Gaynor <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: Alex Gaynor <[email protected]>
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reaperhulk and alex authored May 30, 2023
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to be secret, but may cause stronger security guarantees if secret; see
:rfc:`5869` and the `HKDF paper`_ for more details. If ``None`` is
explicitly passed a default salt of ``algorithm.digest_size // 8`` null
bytes will be used.
bytes will be used. See `understanding HKDF`_ for additional detail about
the salt and info parameters.

:param bytes info: Application specific context information. If ``None``
is explicitly passed an empty byte string will be used.
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.. _`here`: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30308723/1170681
.. _`recommends`: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7914#section-2
.. _`The scrypt paper`: https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf
.. _`understanding HKDF`: https://soatok.blog/2021/11/17/understanding-hkdf/

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